Where can I buy Western Grips?

I have played for a long time w/ Continental Grip. Now my new coach says that I should change it for the Western Grip. I can't find them anywhere so can anyone of you please tell me where can I buy them. Do they sell them in small packages? I don't want to use so much money on them... My coach says that my forehand could work better with Western Grip.

Western should be called a Southern grip when your palm ends up under the grip. Guess you can also call it an Aussie grip, eh? Would they want it? So your name is Su, how do you do? These grips may be worthless anyway

I found that Semiwesterns are quite a bit more expensive than the regular Westerns? Is there a big difference between the two?

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why did your coach tell you to buy a western? those are so cheap, go get a eastern/semi-western hybrid for like a dollar extra. Then buy yourself a drop shot, backhand overhead, 1 handed backhand, slice backhand, twist serve, and volleys.

I think you should go for the Atlantic one (aka diametrically opposed to the Continental). They are expensive and it may look a little snobbish on court at first but that's the price of true luxury... If you really want the tops, get a mink overgrip over it!

i'll echo an earlier sentiment... i was having a crappy day, but this really cheered me up thanks a lot... (edit: this should go on that thread colecting the funniest threads... someone put it there, i don't know how)

btw, i inherited mine from my grandfather... but he was a golfer so now i'm really screwed up! i don't have a slice but a hook, but everything still goes to the left!

i have a question... doesn't the idea of a western grip depend entirely on your geographical location (put aside the fact that we live on a sphere for a moment)... the furstther west you go would eventually become east right? as in the far east... well where are you talking about that from? hawaii? surely hawaiians say that japan is west of them, not REALLY REALLY east. so buying a western grip seems a like a hot bed of bad black market rip offs. you could buy what you think is a western grip, but it turns out it was made in the far east or even eastern europe (not knocking the quality of products from those areas... just that they are east) then you are in fact getting an eastern western grip. be sure you know not only where it was made, but also where you are buying it from and where it was beign sold... because having one type fo grip when you htink you have another is a sure fire way to hurt yourself...

by the way, the best grips i ever bought were in amsterdam... but then i've never been to thailand

I think he left to look for a western grip...he'll probably hit the used sporting goods shops first. hey I wonder if they sell holsters for your western grips...you can have 2 racquets and when you hit winners, you can pretend there's smoke coming out from them and blow on them and then twirl the racquets and put them away like a cowboy

you should get that checked out by a Dr then...I thought I caught a case of the chuckles one time from this wh0re in bankok but it turns out it was just a bad rash :mrgreen: turns out I gave her the chuckles when I pulled it out...it's because it's cold really...I swear...just give him a second :|

I have played for a long time w/ Continental Grip. Now my new coach says that I should change it for the Western Grip. I can't find them anywhere so can anyone of you please tell me where can I buy them. Do they sell them in small packages? I don't want to use so much money on them... My coach says that my forehand could work better with Western Grip.

I bought mine from my local tennis store. I have tried it for the past week and I think I'm going tosell my semi-western grip and trade in for the western the spin I get is unbelieveable and I don't feel the stress on my arm( think lifting the weights helps).